Degrowth is many things. It is, according to Vincent Liegey, spokesperson for the French Degrowth Movement, a "bomb word" that often prompts heated discussions. It is also, he went on to explain, a multidimensional, interdisciplinary field of research that seeks to deconstruct the growth paradigm. Liegey noted that although some people in some parts of the world have benefited enormously from growing economies in recent decades, many of these same people don't feel that they are living meaningful lives.
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November 20, 2015
"Basic income empowers people," declared Marcus Brancaglione, co-founder of ReCivitas, a Brazilian NGO that managed an innovative universal basic income (UBI) project in a small community on the rural periphery of São Paulo, Brazil.
October 6, 2015
In a public lecture on September 29 co-organized by the School of Public Policy at CEU and PERG, Paul Maarek presented a paper he had recently co-authored with SPP Associate Professor Michael Dorsch. In the paper, “Rent seeking, revolutionary threat and coups in non-democracies,” Dorsch and Maarek “study both theoretically and empirically the political turnover process in autocracies due to coups.”
September 18, 2015
The School of Public Policy (SPP) at Central European University in partnership with the Central European University Institute for Advanced Study (CEU IAS) in Budapest, and the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) in Berlin have launched a fellowship program for researchers and public policy practitioners from nine countries (Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Iran...
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